Cat in the Rain

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The linguo-stylistic analysis of the text “Cat in the rain” by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician. His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. The short story "Cat in the Rain" was written by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920´s. The title of this text is a nominal syntagm.It consist of two nouns(“cat” and “rain”)and a preposition(“in”).This syntagm is often mentioned in the text and carries more meaning than the literal cat in the rain.The story talks about a cat in the rain, however, this is not what Hemingway meant when he wrote the story.One of the characters, the American Wife,has the same discomfort and unhappiness as poor cat under raindrops.The title belongs to natural reality and it is faunistic because it is related to fauna(“cat”).”The rain” is a state of weather,so it also can be considerated a natural element.The title can be philosophical because contain an abstract idea which can be seen as a symbol of the whole text.This title has an expressive function because it is realized by means of several components:figurativity and emotionality.This syntagm gives us a certain idea about the content of the text,but,at the same time,it is figurative because has a deeper meaning,which the reader must discover by himself. Talking about its functional styles the text is belles-lettres and it is a prose.It is a short story because it deals with a single event and a theme.It is a narrative sequence and most of all it is used Past Simple.There are characters and narrator.The intention of the author is to retell a real fact.It also contains dialogical sequence.There is conversation between characters. The
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